Number 5

In Idaho Cash under the 5/45 · since Mar 2017 rules — 2,025 draws, 5 from 1–45.

220times drawn · chance expected 225 −0.35σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 70% for any number

9.2average wait between appearances · chance says 9.0

61longest completed wait · 17% chance of one at least that long

5 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 220 times in 2,025 draws against 225.0 expected, −0.35σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 5, draw by draw

Drawn 220 times in 2,025 draws · average wait 9.2 draws · longest completed wait 61 · waiting 4 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 5 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest154 · chance 148.1
2nd smallest60 · chance 64.0
3rd smallest6 · chance 7.6
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 20.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 17 9 27 6 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 5 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 5 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	19	1st	5 9 10 21 22
2026-09-18	5	1st	5 22 31 41 44
2026-09-13	6	2nd	3 5 23 37 44
2026-09-07	8	1st	5 12 15

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 5 is drawn with probability 5/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-02-23	8	1st	5 20 26 35 45
2026-02-15	2	1st	5 13 31 32 44
2026-02-13	6	1st	5 6 12 17 39
2026-02-07	3	1st	5 11 23 32 39
2026-02-04	7	2nd	4 5 16 26 37
2026-01-28	1	1st	5 16 19 21 34
2026-01-27	1	1st	5 9 17 37 40
2026-01-26	6	1st	5 13 34 35 41
2026-01-20	4	2nd	1 5 11 35 45
2026-01-16	5	1st	5 8 9 16 17
2026-01-11	11	1st	5 22 34 40 42
2025-12-31	3	3rd	2 3 5 27 37
2025-12-28	4	2nd	3 5 14 18 36
2025-12-24	13	1st	5 12 27 28 37
2025-12-11	5	1st	5 7 19 24 27
2025-12-06	9	1st	5 18 30 33 42
2025-11-26	7	1st	5 14 31 41 43
2025-11-19	9	1st	5 7 18 34 35
2025-11-10	18	2nd	4 5 8 25 28
2025-10-23	4	2nd	4 5 10 23 39
2025-10-18	1	2nd	1 5 6 33 44
2025-10-17	9	1st	5 8 12 18 38
2025-10-08	5	1st	5 10 34 35 40
2025-10-03	1	1st	5 16 24 31 32
2025-10-02	21	1st	5 8 9 34 39
2025-09-11	1	1st	5 6 20 25 30
2025-09-10	18	3rd	3 4 5 20 25
2025-08-23	24	2nd	2 5 17 33 39
2025-07-30	45	1st	5 20 25 31 43
2025-06-15	6	1st	5 10 11 23 28
2025-06-09	5	1st	5 14 27 40 42
2025-06-04	19	1st	5 21 26 27 34
2025-05-16	15	2nd	2 5 11 30 34
2025-05-01	9	1st	5 11 20 41 43
2025-04-22	3	2nd	2 5 9 20 34
2025-04-19	10	1st	5 28 32 33 38
2025-04-09	1	2nd	2 5 15 17 29
2025-04-08	10	1st	5 10 20 27 37
2025-03-29	14	1st	5 9 16 22 32
2025-03-15	6	1st	5 16 21 26 41
2025-03-09	2	1st	5 14 25 29 43
2025-03-07	1	2nd	4 5 19 31 38
2025-03-06	2	1st	5 11 12 28 38
2025-03-04	11	1st	5 8 19 39 40
2025-02-21	17	1st	5 15 19 21 37
2025-02-04	3	1st	5 14 19 32 41
2025-02-01	6	1st	5 7 9 22 39
2025-01-26	1	2nd	2 5 8 15 24
2025-01-25	4	2nd	1 5 9 22 31
2025-01-21	2	1st	5 6 12 16 44
2025-01-19	2	1st	5 22 28 42 43
2025-01-17	2	1st	5 8 15 21 41
2025-01-15	3	2nd	1 5 8 16 21
2025-01-12	2	1st	5 8 9 29 33
2025-01-10	10	2nd	3 5 12 17 20
2024-12-31	2	2nd	4 5 7 8 23
2024-12-29	25	1st	5 14 21 29 30
2024-12-04	2	1st	5 13 29 34 39
2024-12-02	8	1st	5 15 18 33 40
2024-11-24	6	1st	5 12 23 31 38
2024-11-18	5	1st	5 12 23 36 38
2024-11-13	7	1st	5 7 8 24 43
2024-11-06	34	1st	5 10 16 19 34
2024-10-03	6	2nd	1 5 8 16 44
2024-09-27	24	2nd	3 5 19 21 23
2024-09-03	25	1st	5 13 19 34 44
2024-08-09	7	2nd	2 5 19 26 28
2024-08-02	9	1st	5 9 27 30 31
2024-07-24	4	1st	5 11 20 24 28
2024-07-20	2	1st	5 15 18 26 40
2024-07-18	1	1st	5 14 27 36 37
2024-07-17	1	1st	5 15 19 28 38
2024-07-16	5	1st	5 8 32 35 38
2024-07-11	11	3rd	1 2 5 6 17
2024-06-30	4	1st	5 7 13 23 40
2024-06-26	10	2nd	3 5 16 36 37
2024-06-16	2	1st	5 11 26 30 44
2024-06-14	14	2nd	4 5 6 7 10
2024-05-31	19	1st	5 14 29 35 36
2024-05-12	7	2nd	1 5 19 40 41
2024-05-05	1	1st	5 12 13 30 31
2024-05-04	9	2nd	1 5 13 28 41
2024-04-25	9	1st	5 7 15 25 42
2024-04-16	9	1st	5 17 18 19 40
2024-04-07	5	1st	5 17 18 25 27
2024-04-02	3	1st	5 26 39 41 42
2024-03-30	4	1st	5 6 13 24 40
2024-03-26	16	1st	5 19 22 32 42
2024-03-10	7	1st	5 11 14 24 27
2024-03-03	14	1st	5 16 25 27 33
2024-02-18	1	2nd	3 5 20 29 43
2024-02-17	24	2nd	4 5 12 21 45
2024-01-24	15	1st	5 10 21 26 37
2024-01-09	6	2nd	1 5 9 11 29
2024-01-03	7	2nd	4 5 9 12 38
2023-12-27	8	2nd	4 5 27 30 34
2023-12-19	17	2nd	4 5 22 31 33
2023-12-02	5	1st	5 8 15 16 40
2023-11-27	2	1st	5 17 38 39 44
2023-11-25	18	2nd	4 5 20 34 39
2023-11-07	11	1st	5 27 28 31 41
2023-10-27	2	1st	5 12 21 23 30
2023-10-25	1	1st	5 7 13 33 44
2023-10-24	4	2nd	3 5 26 27 38
2023-10-20	14	1st	5 21 22 41 42
2023-10-06	3	1st	5 8 13 20 21
2023-10-03	16	2nd	2 5 7 34 39
2023-09-17	4	1st	5 10 13 31 39
2023-09-13	10	2nd	4 5 12 30 44
2023-09-03	1	1st	5 18 26 29 37
2023-09-02	17	2nd	2 5 9 31 39
2023-08-16	14	2nd	1 5 13 26 44
2023-08-02	5	1st	5 11 21 25 27
2023-07-28	38	1st	5 18 25 33 39
2023-06-20	7	1st	5 20 33 37 44
2023-06-13	2	1st	5 8 14 18 38
2023-06-11	13	1st	5 9 23 33 45
2023-05-29	15	1st	5 8 16 25 40
2023-05-14	8	1st	5 10 21 26 31
2023-05-06	4	2nd	3 5 6 19 20
2023-05-02	13	1st	5 6 19 20 30
2023-04-19	12	1st	5 7 17 26 33
2023-04-07	5	1st	5 17 20 22 38
2023-04-02	6	1st	5 12 20 35 41
2023-03-27	4	1st	5 6 34 40 42
2023-03-23	61	2nd	3 5 19 26 28
2023-01-21	31	2nd	1 5 7 9 14
2022-12-21	5	1st	5 13 17 24 29
2022-12-16	8	1st	5 11 22 27 37
2022-12-08	3	1st	5 13 23 32 39
2022-12-05	17	1st	5 6 10 32 38
2022-11-18	5	2nd	1 5 20 23 41
2022-11-13	24	1st	5 15 16 29 45
2022-09-07	4	1st	5 16 17 20 31
2022-08-24	16	1st	5 6 32 36 44
2022-06-29	6	1st	5 9 16 17 28
2022-06-08	4	1st	5 24 28 39 43
2022-05-25	2	1st	5 8 18 36 40
2022-05-18	30	1st	5 26 27 29 43
2022-02-02	3	1st	5 11 19 43 45
2022-01-22	20	1st	5 16 22 36 45
2021-11-13	13	1st	5 22 26 32 41
2021-09-29	3	1st	5 9 34 36 44
2021-09-18	1	1st	5 6 29 34 43
2021-09-15	11	2nd	1 5 22 32 45
2021-08-07	3	2nd	4 5 6 11 42
2021-07-28	11	1st	5 13 29 32 36
2021-06-19	1	2nd	2 5 24 39 45
2021-06-16	11	1st	5 9 17 27 34
2021-05-08	7	2nd	1 5 22 23 43
2021-04-14	4	2nd	1 5 10 11 24
2021-03-31	6	1st	5 6 21 24 42
2021-03-10	3	1st	5 8 32 34 36
2021-02-27	11	2nd	2 5 13 24 42
2021-01-20	19	2nd	3 5 17 24 26
2020-11-14	19	2nd	3 5 16 19 24
2020-09-09	2	2nd	3 5 10 18 37
2020-09-02	1	1st	5 12 13 24 30
2020-08-29	14	1st	5 6 15 18 31
2020-07-11	7	1st	5 6 10 16 23
2020-06-17	13	2nd	4 5 24 29 30
2020-05-02	1	3rd	1 2 5 7 43
2020-04-29	4	1st	5 8 16 29 30
2020-04-15	32	1st	5 7 15 37 42
2019-12-25	2	1st	5 9 15 19 27
2019-12-18	15	1st	5 10 12 14 28
2019-10-26	10	1st	5 11 13 24 44
2019-09-21	6	1st	5 9 20 27 34
2019-08-31	16	1st	5 17 31 40 45
2019-07-06	20	1st	5 26 31 39 42
2019-04-27	11	2nd	3 5 6 20 22
2019-03-20	13	1st	5 15 37 41 42
2019-02-02	4	2nd	4 5 12 24 36
2019-01-19	1	1st	5 17 24 26 33
2019-01-16	3	1st	5 11 30 32 43
2019-01-05	13	1st	5 17 19 33 42
2018-11-21	28	2nd	3 5 6 13 33
2018-08-15	6	3rd	2 4 5 16 40
2018-07-25	2	1st	5 18 22 31 39
2018-07-18	6	1st	5 10 16 32 45
2018-06-27	16	1st	5 9 16 17 18
2018-05-02	2	1st	5 10 16 25 42
2018-04-25	5	1st	5 9 20 21 35
2018-04-07	4	1st	5 16 22 25 32
2018-03-24	14	1st	5 16 32 40 42
2018-02-03	12	1st	5 11 12 34 38
2017-12-23	9	2nd	3 5 9 11 21
2017-11-22	1	1st	5 24 25 32 41
2017-11-18	10	1st	5 11 23 29 41
2017-10-14	12	1st	5 21 22 37 42
2017-09-02	13	1st	5 6 21 25 29
2017-07-19	4	1st	5 9 25 27 31
2017-07-05	10	1st	5 21 30 33 34
2017-05-31	11	1st	5 21 27 38 40
2017-04-22	5	1st	5 26 31 34 39
2017-04-05	—	1st	5 38 39 42 45